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That was an interesting and useful read, thank you. Are you the author of that page or not?
Nah just found it. Vancouver isn't that popular for hosting so I was curious what's out there and where they are being hosted.
@WiFi Just run tailscale on your home network and mark that node as exit node.
Now when you connect to tailscale all traffic will exit via your home, aka residential IP.
Another idea would be using Cloudflare WARP, hit or miss tbh, works fine for unblocking OTT for me in India though.
There is no Canadian home.
You're wanting to appear as located in Canada when you're not. And not just as in Canada, but a physical presence in Canada. Having to avoid datacenter IPs and avoid services with Cloud-like names are also mitigations. And you also want purchases made to appear to come from physical Canadian business, but you're not.
I am a Canadian who travels a lot and use VPN to home router and that's the best and easiest solution. Unless you have extended power outage, UPS failure or extended ISP failure, this is cheapest and best solution. But requires actual physical service in Canada.
Yes, every single Shaw/Rogers had the capability to be changed into bridge mode. You don't even need to contact support to do that in most cases.
Nothing stopping them port forwarding through Shaw router even if they didn't know about bridge mode all those years from any provider.
I’m not the one. I’m just a project manager and a bit of an admin. One of the co-founders of the company assigns these tasks to me. He rents a house, is a Canadian tax resident, and has PR there. To set up the MikroTik, he would have to fly to Canada, find someone local, coordinate with the homeowner, who is also the account holder with Shaw. One round trip costs about as much as five years of RDP, which already delivers 99.98% uptime.
Otherwise, you are correct. He wants to use Canadian services as if he were physically there. What is wrong with that? These days, almost every site is implementing VPN detection, risk scoring, and similar controls. For example, a forum relevant to the company’s field has deployed an IPv4 filtering API, and it cannot be accessed through any VPN at all.
If you assume everyone is as dishonest as you are, I can show you our boss’s CRA T4, PR, and driver’s license privately. We can also make it public and bet $1,000 on it. I will show you all the house documents as well, including gas bills, and we can settle the dispute through an escrow service.
There is no real need to create the appearance of being in Canada.
The actual problem is that some websites return a 403 error on access, such as digikey.com, while banks and fintech companies ask the customer to appear in person at a branch within 1 to 2 weeks. IT providers have started doing the same. For example, Frantec.ca places orders from such IPs on hold. The same applies to risk scoring in stores built on Shopify, and so on. Not to mention that websites keep throwing CAPTCHAs at users, sometimes making them solve three in a row.
With this trend, in 1 to 2 years these mechanisms will likely be used everywhere, and any proxy, VPN, or similar workaround that is easy to detect will be useless. That is why I am not considering them at all.
Or you could just mail a $100 Raspberry Pi with Tailscale installed, plug it into one of the free router ports and you're done? (bonus points if you also prejoin the WiFi SSID using the RPI imager tool so basic even a 12 year old could do it)
hmm what about LTE/5g router
The sorcery wizard with the easy win 🥇
Other than fraud, there is nothing wrong with that...
Most likely the issue is banking and tax free accounts, that requires tax residence, and if you are more than 6 months a year away from Canada those accounts can be closed and the owner debanked.
Wealthsimple does that, Questrade does that.
What fraud? The company files T4 forms for its employees every year, and the CRA confirms tax residency.
A guy uses Scotia and TD, and there are no issues with either of them, even when he accesses them from abroad.
@WiFi consider using ubigi for apps and stuff? It looks promising
Yeah, just seems sketchy. The details you include, the offering of T4's and driver's license, the bullshit excuse about ordering from digikey.com, confusing company vs boss, etc.